GREECE 2609 GREECE 



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OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON GREECE 



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 Outline 



I. Location nnd Si/.e IV. Modern .r,-,-,T 



( 1 ) Easternmost of European peninsulas ( * } The P e P Ie 



(2) Surrounding waters and islands ange for the worse during 



(3) Size after 191345,000 square miles years of Abjection 



(b) Opposite change since independ- 

 ence 



II. Physical Features (2) Industries 



( 1 ) Coast line (a > Agriculture 

 (a) Longest in proportion to area of 



any country 



(2) Surface characteristics 



(a) Largely mountainous < c) Unimportant manufactures 



1. Effects of this fact on history Transportation and commerce 



(3) Waters ( * Religion, education and government 



(a) Turbulent character of rivers v - History 



(b) Malarial lake of Boeotia (1 > Early periods of migration 



(2) The wonderful years 



III. Aneicut Greece , < a) Persian wars 



( 3 ) Downfall of Athens 



(1) Lack of national unity (a) Peloponnesiun War 



(a) Effect of geography in this (4) Subjection to foreign powers 



(2) The people (a) Macedonia 



(a) Four tribes (b) Rome 



(b) Love for beauty (c) Turkey 



1. Great works of art (5) The modern kingdom 



(c) Religion or mythology (a) Independence secured in 1827 



(d) Education (b) Activities of the nineteenth cen- 



1. Athenian standard tury 



2. Spartan standard (c) Balkan WrfFs 



(e) Slavery (d) War of the Nations 



Questions 



Name, an ancient Greek slave who became famous. How did he gain his fame? 



What geographic cause accounted for the stupidity of one group of the people? 



What helped the people to preserve a feeling of nationality during the centuries 

 of Turkish domination? 



How did the Spartan ideal in education differ from the Athenian? 



If the coast line of the United States were as long in proportion to area as that of 

 Greece, how long would it be? 



Why would the proverb "Handsome is as handsome does" have seemed foolish 

 !> :m ancient Athenian? 



Why has not the Corinth Canal been as great an aid to commerce a* it was ex- 

 pected to be? 



Why does the word Thermopylae stir the blood of a Greek? 



What did the Greeks call all non-Greeks? What did the word mean? 



Why does it seem unlikely that the manufactures will ever increase in impor- 

 tance? 



Who took as his watchword "Remember the Athenians," and what did it mean? 



How did the geography tend to make of ancient Greece many small countries 

 instead of one large one? 



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